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Bad Bunny won 2025 with fewer streams than Swift's 2024
Spotify’s #1 artist each year, streams in billions
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Source: Spotify Newsroom (Wrapped 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025); Variety and CBS News for 2022 and 2023 · Dec 2025
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Bad Bunny won 2025 with 19.8 billion streams, fewer than Swift’s 26.6 billion in 2024.
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- 2020: 8.3B → 2025: 19.8B (+139%)
High 26.6B (2024) · Low 8.3B (2020)
| # | Period | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2020 | 8.3B |
| 2 | 2021 | 9.1B |
| 3 | 2022 | 18.5B |
| 4 | 2023 | 26.1B |
| 5 | 2024 | 26.6B |
| 6 | 2025 | 19.8B |
How we counted
Each year's total is Spotify's own count for the year's #1 artist, as announced in its Wrapped release (the 2022 and 2023 totals come from news coverage of those releases). Wrapped counts run from January 1 to late in the year, so each is a slightly shortened year.
- Spotify NewsroomResearch or own measurementBad Bunny was Spotify's top global artist of 2025 with 19.8 billion streams
19.8 billion streams this year
newsroom.spotify.com/2025-12-03/wrapped-top-artists-songs-albums-podcasts-audiob - Digital Music NewsNews reportBad Bunny's 19.8 billion streams made him the top global artist of 2025
19.8 billion
digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/03/spotify-wrapped-2025-highlights/ - Spotify NewsroomResearch or own measurementTaylor Swift was Spotify's 2024 Global Top Artist with more than 26.6 billion streams
With more than 26.6 billion streams globally, Taylor Swift is Spotify’s 2024 Global Top Artist.
newsroom.spotify.com/2024-12-04/top-songs-artists-podcasts-audiobooks-albums-tre - CBS NewsNews reportTaylor Swift was Spotify's top global artist of 2023 with more than 26.1 billion streams; Bad Bunny second
more than 26.1 billion streams since Jan. 1
cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/spotify-wrapped-2023-taylor-swift-most-streamed-ar - The FADERNews reportBad Bunny was Spotify's top global artist of 2022 with 18.5 billion streams
18.5 billion streams globally this year
thefader.com/2022/11/30/bad-bunny-was-spotifys-most-streamed-artist-in-2022 - Spotify NewsroomResearch or own measurementBad Bunny was Spotify's top global artist of 2021 with more than 9.1 billion streams
9.1 billion
newsroom.spotify.com/2021-12-01/what-the-world-streamed-most-in-2021/ - Spotify NewsroomResearch or own measurementBad Bunny was Spotify's top global artist of 2020 with more than 8.3 billion streams
more than 8.3 billion streams
newsroom.spotify.com/2020-12-01/the-trends-that-shaped-streaming-in-2020/
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- “Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)” by spinningmerkaba (feat. Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza) (CC BY 3.0), edited for length. All music credits
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- Covering Dec 2025.
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Source: Spotify Newsroom (Wrapped 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025); Variety and CBS News for 2022 and 2023. Covering Dec 2025.
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19.8 billion streams made Bad Bunny Spotify's top artist of 2025.
Bad Bunny topped 2020 with 8.3 billion, 2021 with 9.1 billion and 2022 with 18.5 billion. Taylor Swift took 2023 with 26.1 billion and 2024 with 26.6 billion. Bad Bunny won 2025 with — 19.8 billion. Far fewer, but still enough to win.
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- SourceFigures from Spotify Newsroom (Wrapped 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025); Variety and CBS News for 2022 and 2023.
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